All tracks written and produced by Ross Healy.
Recorded @ Amnesia International Mobile Unit 1.
Recorded 2015 all year.
"Cray's (Ross Healy) new album is released on Vicmod Records. This is Ross’s 24th album release featuring Buchla Modular, Buchla Music Easel, Serge Modular, Euro Modular, Omnisphere and Melbourne weather recordings."
Love the analogy to painting at the very end. It's an interesting concept - reproducing set tracks vs. exploration.
"We caught up with Ross Healy (Cray) in the first of our short interviews featuring the artists who are performing at our next Resonant show on the 7th May 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.
via vicmod "To celebrate VICMOD Records involvement with the Fringe Festival 2011 night Electronic Abstractions, Melbourne's abstract electronic label are giving away its entire back catalog for free for the month of September! You can download all previous releases by Cray, Ryou Oonishi, VICMOD Ensemble, Richard Lainhart, Healy/Hassler, Rod Cooper, Steve Law etc So what are you waiting for start downloading and listening! http://www.vicmod.net
Don't forget 21 September is an amazing night of abstract electronics featuring
ROBIN FOX
COR FUHLER
CRAY
VICMOD ENSEMBLE
WILLIAMS AND HAYES
Tickets on sale via Fringe Melbourne"
Note this is a rare opportunity to see some vintage synths performed live:
Robin Fox EMS Synthi
Cor Fuhler EMS Synthi
Cray - Serge Modular or Buchla 200e
VICMOD Ensemble - modular synths
Williams Hayes - VCS3 and Roland System 100
Mix of unreleased Cray tracks featuring: Buchla 200e, Serge, Roland MC202, Mescaline, Eurorack, Lorre Mille Double Knot, Electron Analog 4, and Octatrack.
"Cray on Buchla 200e vs Abre Ojos on custom Euro modular, live improv at Make It Up Club 25th Nov 2008 Melbourne Australia.
Not a lot to see as it was shot with a HV20 on a stationary tripod. Sound recorded straight off the mixer by Stephen Richards via an Indigo card & Powerbook in Ableton Live.
Head on over to: abreojos.net for a mp3 download of the full set."
Tod Dockstader was one of the pioneers of electronic music working mainly with tape. You can find his Wikipedia page here. Wired has a great interview/write-up posted back in June of 2012.
"Born in 1932, Dockstader was part of the first wave of electronic musicians, who, before the advent of synthesizers in the early 1960s, worked with whatever hardware they could find: reel-to-reel tape machines, sine wave generators and a wild array of homemade circuits and military surplus gear. In the process, they created a universe of electronic music that still sounds unique and prescient today.
The wire recorder Dockstader used to create electronic music was a piece of used military equipment. 'A lot of this [electronic music] happened because, after the war, a lot of the stuff was available,' Dockstader said. 'Normally a person, a civilian … wouldn’t be able to get that tube, this device or that device. That fascinated me.'"
Explore some sound in his memory this weekend.
Below are a few videos in via Cray. The first is a short on Tod Dockstader recently on Kickstarter, followed by two pieces of his work. You can find more posts featuring Tod Dockstader here.
YouTube Uploaded by cray56 on May 23, 2011
Warning: lots of flashy lights in this one.
"First track on Digitalis release from Show Fades album"
Buchla 200e, Audiomulch, Omnisphere, Ableton Live, field recordings.
cray - show fades (album preview) by experimedia "Available from Experimedia.net. buchla & voyager collisions from the cosmic outback cooked to perfection. 75 copies.
Released by: digitalis
Release/catalogue number: digiltd207
Release date: Aug 7, 2011"
